Trending News: The Reason You Don't Like Kanye's Face

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Scientists studied celebrities notorious or doing 'resting bitch face' and discovered we dislike it because it puts off a vibe of contempt.

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It's not their fault, really. Some people with 'resting bitch face' (RBF), or 'bitchy resting face', may be suffering silently. Allow this Funny or Die video from 2013 break it down for you.

Now that you're well acquainted with RBF, know that it's not just women who suffer from it. Sorry to break it to you guys, but we do it, too.

Researchers Jason Rogers and Abbe Macbeth studied RBF by using facial recognition software FaceReader to study emotions in certain celebrity's faces. RBF all-stars (as cleverly put by The Washington Post's Caitlin Gibson who reported the story) Kanye West, Kaitlin Stewart and Queen Elizabeth were plugged into the software and gave off double the emotion than most other people with genuinely expressionless faces. The big difference — contempt.

"Because contempt is based upon elements of comparison and judgment, viewing this in someone’s face creates a feeling of uneasiness, or uncomfortableness, for the person viewing that face," Rogers and Macbeth explain.

And while many of us tend to associate RBF with women, the researchers say that's an unfair generalization.

"So RBF isn’t necessarily something that occurs more in women, but we’re more attuned to notice it in women because women have more pressure on them to be happy and smiley and to get along with others,” said Macbeth to the Washington Post.

If you want to see if you have RBF, the researchers welcome guys and girls alike to email in pictures or videos of their neutral faces to jason@noldus.com, and FaceReader will tell you if you're afflicted with the condition or not.

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